Figure 3.1: RiceProduction, Yield and Area in Vietnam 1975-2004 Yield (ton/ha) Production (mil ton) Area (mil ha) Source: Author calculated from IRRI 2006 ... the importance of riceproduction in Vietnam, it is unclear why there have been so few ... to estimate farm-level technical and scale efficiency in riceproduction in Vietnam

Rice plays a very important role in Vietnam. The 2006 VHLSS shows that it ... About 26 percent of real household expenditure comes from riceproduction. Among rice farming households, riceproduction equals 50 percent of real household expenditure ... Table 6.5: RiceProduction and Consumption as Percentages of Total Household Real Expenditure Percentage of Net Net Selfsellers purchasers sufficient Production

6.4.2. Rice Consumption and Production Patterns Table 6.4 summarizes rice consumption and production patterns among Vietnamese households, as measured by the 2006 ... also reflects the fact that Vietnam is usually the world‟s second largest rice exporter ... Table 6.4: RiceProduction and Consumption, in kg (Q) and thousand VND (V) Production (Q) Consumption (Q) Sales (Q) Purchase (Q) Production (V) Consumption Sales

3.4.2. Scale Efficiency For the stochastic frontier functional form, the sum of the coefficients from the Cobb-Douglass production frontier is 1.098, implying increasing returns to scale. The hypothesis of constant returns to scale (sum of coefficient ... Large farm Small farm Diversified farm Mainly rice farm ...vietnam

The measure of output is the quantity of rice harvested during the previous 12 ... by the value of riceproduction over the value of total farm production. Thus, it ... activities. Rice land is measured by the land area allocated for riceproduction. Other

In order to understand better rice consumption and production patterns ... of the percentage of household per capita expenditure spent on rice on the logarithm ... 6.2 are consistent with Engel‟s Law; the share of budget spent on rice declines

Food production can be divided into the growing of rice, other staple crops (e ... products (fish, shrimp etc.). For Vietnam as a whole, the value of food production ... that Vietnam is a major exporter of food products38. More specifically, an average

the regions. Overall, the Red River Delta has the highest technical efficiency in rice farming. This result is consistent with the riceyield data. In 2002, the riceyield in the Mekong Delta was 4611 kg per hectare (300kg over the average in Vietnam), in the Red ... /Labor Head's age Primary Secondary High education Farm output Land quality Non-farm ratio Irrigation Extension visit Rented land ratio Borrow Exclusive rice North East

with total farm output value higher than 15 million VND (about $1, 000)15. Mainly rice farms are defined as farms for which the value of riceoutput is more than 70 percent ... value of farm output. About 70 percent of farms in the sample are mainly rice ... in the dataset according to the DEA method. Farms in the Southern Region- the main production

for a sample of rice producers in Vietnam using the parametric, semi-parametric and non ... is used to correct for bias, it yields a mean estimate of 0.678 for inputoriented DEA ... frontier estimation yields a mean estimate of 0.634. The variance of estimates